Groskurd corrects the text, and translates: “Near the river is a large promontory, and a neighbouring settlement called Metagonium.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

It was no longer the time when the successor of St. Cyprian, at the head of a numerous synod, could maintain an equal contest with the ambition of the Roman pontiff.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

what an air of innocent confidence appeared in her behaviour, and what affectionate names she called me!—I am lost in wonder at the depth of her hypocrisy.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He in like manner invited to him a notable singer called Maban, 943 who had been taught to sing by the successors of the disciples of the blessed Pope Gregory in Kent, to instruct himself and his clergy, and kept him twelve years, to the end that he might teach such Church music as they did not know, and by his teaching restore to its former state that which was corrupted either by long use, or through neglect.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and when he heard the hunting cries outside, he exclaimed, "I cannot stop away—I must be there, and none shall catch me so easily again!"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Up, and this morning put on my new, fine, coloured cloth suit, with my cloake lined with plush, which is a dear and noble suit, costing me about L17.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The difficulties which meet us, in our attempt to rise through the series of phenomena to the existence of an absolutely necessary supreme cause, must not originate from our inability to establish the truth of our mere conceptions of the necessary existence of a thing.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Then, as they call the roll of shining worlds, Sages of race unborn in accents new Shall count me with the Olympian ones of old, Whose glories kindle through the midnight sky Here glows the God of Battles; this recalls The Lord of Ocean, and yon far-off sphere
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“And now,” said Chetwynd, “may I ask the meaning of this inquiry?”
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

But there are some good state schools among them, as, for instance, that at Boonesboro’, N. C.; and numerous small colleges mostly founded before the Civil War.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

O Alexander E. McRae Glen Road, W. O. Antigonishe N S C. McGillivry Glen Sutton Sutton Brome Q
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

A bloody sacrifice was offered by his mistaken votaries to the God of the Christians: resistance might provoke but neither age nor sex could mollify, their implacable rage: they indulged themselves three days in a promiscuous massacre; and the infection of the dead bodies produced an epidemical disease.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

I 'ave to go out afore breakfast and stay out till late at night, and even then like as not she catches me on the doorstep.
— from At Sunwich Port, Part 5. Contents: Chapters 21-25 by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs